My artistic aesthetic and vision is understated. Through my artistic practice I continue to explore how the archetypal female form in contemporary culture is intimately linked to nature through bronze casting and its varied techniques and applications. I am an independent exhibiting visual artist.
My work is in conversation with avant-guard artists like, Michelle Grabner, whose narrative curates and values traditionally feminine and domestic themes of craft and making in contemporary ways. I create cast bronze wall-relief assemblage compositions from delicate natural organics, which are unique objects without copies, to portray the alchemical transformation of materials from weakness into strength. In this body armor series I continue to explore the feminine divine and its relationship to power and nature as seen through my own female lens. Each iteration conveys natural and mystical symbolism. The series suggests that girlhood pursuits are worthy of memorialization and promote self-reliance along the shero’s journey.
Through my personal journey, I contextualize time by giving it form as once thriving plants now memorialized in bronze. From first generation seeds linked to family gardens and species endemic to North America, new generations of plants grew to redistribute genes as another season of seeds were produced. These seeds I sowed in studio during summer residency to be planted in the KLab and later harvested to be cast in bronze forever – or until the house burns down. It is my intention to cast a handful of these seeds in a precious metal. In a manner, memorializing time as a precious commodity.